Grete bost thay make that the Duck shold have Drayton in peas, and after thys Haylesdon, and that with in short tyme; thay er moch the bolder, I suppose, by cause that ye be wher as ye be.
For the pomp oft the prid furth shawis, Or ellis the gret bost that it blawis.
Egistus, which was elles where, Tidinges comen to his Ere 2080 How that Micenes was belein, Bot what was more herd he noght sein; With gret manace and mochel bost He drowh pouer and made an host And cam in rescousse of the toun.
Thar is sic haist in thi hed, I hop thou wald neys, That brawlys thus with thi bost quhen bernys with the bourdis.
Do wa thy bost and mannance maid to ws: 30 For my fader, quhom thou desyris besyde, Reputtis all elyke, quhou evir the chance betyde.
Desist, and ces to bost me or manas, 15 For I am cum to de in this ilk plas; Bot first I bryng the thir rewards, quod he.
Bost also likens it to the Via Mala, though here the road, at the narrowest and most precipitous parts, runs in the bottom of the gorge, in a ledge cut in the rock, there being room only for the river and the road.
Bost compares it to the Moutier-Grand-Val, in the canton of Berne, but says it is much wilder.
Also if ye doe well, come right stronge, for Howards wife made her bostthat if any of her husbands men might come to yow ther yulde goe noe penny for your life; and Howard hath with the Kinge a great fellowship.
Nay, nay, cham sure she lost not all, for, set thend to the beginning, And ich doubt not but she will make small bost of her winning.
My mother and grandmother both belonged to the Bost family.
When my son-in-law's little house was burnt down last winter, Mynheer Von Bost advanced him money to rebuild it, and charged no interest.
Mynheer Von Bost has never done a soul harm in his life.
Von Bost mounted, and his wife was assisted on to the pillion behind him.
Mynheer Von Bost is a Protestant and a rich man -- that is quite enough for the Blood Council; so he and his pretty young wife are to be dragged off and executed.
No, no, sir; the people here would do a good deal for Mynheer Von Bost and his wife, but they won't risk everything.
The citadel of Bost is built on the debris of extensive works and rises 150 feet above the river.
Robin Hood: A Collection of all the ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, now extant, relative to that celebrated English Outlaw.
Robyn was a prude outlaw, Whyles he walked on grounde; So curteyse an outlaw as he was one Was never non yfounde.
Thou art a shrewed dettour,’ sayd the abbot; ‘Syr justyce, drynke to me.
There is a copy of this in the Bodleian, and another was in the Huth Library.
Than bespake Lytell Johnn All untoo Robyn Hode: ‘Maister, and ye wolde dyne betyme It wolde doo you moche gode.
Then spake that gentyll knyght, To Lytel Johan gan he saye, ‘To-morrowe I must to Yorke toune, To Saynt Mary abbay.
Robin Hood was a mythological figure representing one of the manifestations of Woden, as a vegetation deity; and half a century later Sir J.
They demed the knyght wonder sore, The abbot and his meynë: ‘But he come this ylkë day Dysheryte shall he be.
Footnote 9: This leaf has lately been given to the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, by Mr. Aldis Wright.
They brought him to the lodgë-dore; Whan Robyn gan hym see, Full curtesly dyd of his hode And sette hym on his knee.
The only point to which attention need be called is the obvious fact that ‘Robert Hood’ was not an uncommon combination of names, at least in fourteenth-century England.
After a journey of 70 miles we reached our destination, and in the afternoon accompanied Mr. Bost in a small omnibus belonging to the Institution, to visit his Asylums, which are situated at some little distance from each other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
